Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33778 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #5142 / 7453
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4647 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #1189 / 1276
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18797 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3183 / 3879
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1843 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1524 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #411 / 463
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2922 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #340 / 706
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2875 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #491 / 641
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2372 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #715 / 757
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1027 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #48 / 328
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11506 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #3794 / 4217
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1061 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #189 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 403 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #114 / 181
- Number of attempts: 3
For all cases. - 168 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #41 / 108
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 407 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #97 / 149
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 920 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #158 / 219
- Number of attempts: 3
Hidden Message - 93 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 77
- Position: #27 / 30
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1008 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #152 / 275
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #84 / 294
- Number of attempts: 4
Combines all items - 313 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #62 / 140
- Number of attempts: 2
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #81 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1770 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 450 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #103 / 125
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 985 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #115 / 260
- Number of attempts: 7
Paragraph breaks - 527 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #156 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1073 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #231 / 429
- Number of attempts: 4
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #173 / 184
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1097 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #208 / 247
- Number of attempts: 1
Add Go XML to structure tags - 182 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #67 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4312 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #836 / 1193
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #141 / 281
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3231 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #986 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #60 / 301
- Number of attempts: 10
Don't know what this is - 2024 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #520 / 586
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1148 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1644 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #412 / 520
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3182 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #274 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2569 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #302 / 761
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #481 / 779
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1584 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #301 / 652
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13122 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #3571 / 3774
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7247 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #1355 / 1789
- Number of attempts: 1